The Monongah Mining Disaster cover

The Monongah Mining Disaster

Author: Skog, Jason

Reading Metrics

Grade Level Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level 6.2
Points 1.0
Fiction/Nonfiction Nonfiction
Word Count 3768
Points per Word 0.000265
Page Count 48
Points per Page 0.020833
Series We the People

Description

On December 6, 1907, shortly after 10 o'clock that morning, an explosion shook the mines and killed hundreds of men and boys. Today, the disaster still stands as the worst mining accident in U.S. history.